History on trial: the abortion wars
Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda
Nearly Six Decades in, Medicaid is Still Going Strong
Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present [Volume 3]
The social care-taking of the city-kids. Determinants for day-care attendance in early twentieth-century southern Sweden
History of Social Work in Europe (1900–1960): Female Pioneers and Their Influence on the Development of International Social Organizations
What is Professional Social Work?
Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature
The Myth of Marijuana
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In 1938, Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra (above), head of the federal drug addiction hospital in Mexico City’s National Psychiatric Hospital, also known as La Castañeda, presented a paper, “The Myth of Marijuana,” that offered a radical path to ending one of Mexico’s first “drug wars.”
‘Unemployed Breadwinners’ and ‘Working Mothers’: Male Breadwinner Nostalgia and the 1990s Recession in Australia
Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period
The psychiatric work villages in Israel: a micro working community
The Comfort of Things in White Australia: Male Immigrants, Race and the Three-Piece Suit, c.1901–39
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776. By Kristin A. Olbertson
Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture
Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015: Power, Place and People
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O’Toole
National Children’s Bureau: Sixty years old. Forever young.
Psychology in national socialism: The question of “professionalization” and the case of the “Ostmark”.
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire
Mentally Ill Patients Treated Beautifully In This Hospital In The 1960s. Touching Scenes.
‘Problems of the women’s movement’: Lind-af-Hageby’s assessment of the state of the British women’s movement in 1914 and the scale of the issues facing feminists
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan and the World, 1917–1960
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Participant observers: Anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain
Racism and the making of gay rights: A sexologist, his student, and the empire of queer love By Laurie Marhoefer, University of Toronto Press. 2022.
The soul in soulless psychology
The Limits of Counterculture Urbanism: Utopian Planning and Practical Politics in Berkeley, 1969–73
Journal of Planning History, Ahead of Print.
Around 1970, the City of Berkeley briefly became an epicenter of radical experimentation in urban planning and design, directly stemming from the counterculture of the late 1960s. This essay examines the ideological and political emergence of Berkeley’s counterculture urbanism, arguing that its experiments left two important legacies in the history of planning. On the level of utopian thought, it articulated a clear alternative to mainstream capitalist urban development, or what Henri Lefebvre called “abstract space.” On the level of contemporary planning practices, it opened up still-unresolved conflicts, especially between localized environmental preservation and the abstract, economic demands for affordable housing.
From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s–1980s.
Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain
A detail from the Standard of Ur, from third-millennium B.C. Sumeria, shows prisoners of war between soldiers.
A detail from the Standard of Ur, from third-millennium B.C. Sumeria, shows prisoners of war between soldiers.
Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case
The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden
What is Social Welfare History?
Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles
The WPA: Creating Jobs and Hope in the Great Depression
Social Security Related Legislation Enacted (1983 – 2003)
Exposed
Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s
Welfare in Review
The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century
Dance becomes therapeutic in the mid to late 20th century
Abstract
The convergence of dance art and therapeutic culture engendered the development of dance-movement therapy in the mid to late 20th century internationally. This article traces the sociopolitical, institutional, and aesthetic influences that coalesced in this process by contrasting histories of dance-movement therapy in Hungary and in the United States. The professionalization dance-movement therapy, through which it established its own theory, practice, and training institutions, occurred first in the United States in the late 1940s. Modern dancers in the United States began to conceptualize their activity as therapeutic, and the dancer as a (secular) healer, a therapist. The influx of therapeutic concepts into the field of dance is viewed as an example of therapeutic discourse permeating various areas of life in the 20th century. The Hungarian case provides a contrasting history of therapeutic culture, one that deviates from the predominant view of the phenomenon as a product of the global spread of Western modernization and the growth of free-market capitalism. Hungarian movement and dance therapy indeed developed independently from its American predecessor. Its history is intimately tied to the sociopolitical context of state-socialist period, particularly to the institutionalization of psychotherapy in public hospitals, and to the adaptation of Western group psychotherapies within the informal setting of the “second public sphere.” The legacy of Michael Balint and the British object-relations school provided its theoretical framework. Its methodology was rooted in postmodern dance. The methodological differences between American dance-movement therapy and the Hungarian method reflects the shift in dance aesthetics that occurred internationally between 1940 and 1980s.